Counselors Randi Dressler and Caryn Greenhut will be co-leading the new

 Women’s Empowerment Group.

This group is designed for women who could benefit from a supportive, process-oriented group emphasizing self-care, self-awareness and self-acceptance. Some topics to be explored include boundary setting, enhancing self esteem, assertiveness and mindfulness.

Group begins Thursday, August 5, 6:00-7:30 pm and will run for 12 consecutive weeks. All members are asked to commit for the entire duration.

Fee: $15.00 per session.

Please contact Caryn at (323) 904-3182 Or Randi at (323) 904-3156 for intake.

ADVANCED SUPERVISION TRAINING 

This Fall at the Southern California Counseling Center!

Clinical Supervision is an exciting and challenging endeavor.  Our instructor, Nancy Steiny, MFT, uses her many years of experience as a therapist, teacher and supervisor to bring that excitement and challenge to a highly interactive and collegial course of learning.  Using exercises, discussions, debates, role plays and, above all, her unfailing curiosity and humor, Nancy creates a community of learning that invites participants to bring their own knowledge and expertise to bear to enrich the learning experience of all.

This course is AAMFT and CAMFT approved.  Readings will be provided to participants for discussion. The course goes well beyond the basics of supervision and includes six hours of BBS-required law and ethics training.   Enrollment is limited to 15 students.

The Southern California Counseling Center is approved by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences to offer continuing education to MFTs and LCSWs.  SCCC maintains responsibility for this program.

BBS Provider #249

Classes meet Tuesdays, 9:00 am to 12 noon

21-hour CAMFT-approved Supervision Course offers 21 hours of Continuing Education credits.Dates:

September 21, 2010 through Nov. 2, 2010.

Fee : $350

or continue until Nov 23, 2010 for

30-hour AAMFT-approved Supervision Course offers 30 hours of Continuing Education credits.

Cost: $450

All classes will meet at The Southern California Counseling Center, 5615 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90019.

For more information, please contact Clay Crosby, MFT, (323) 937-1344 ext. 3207.

Free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Consultation Clinic
SCCC Introduces a New Service to the Community

The Southern California Counseling Center launched a new free CBT clinic on June 6th, 2010. We treated 9 clients and many of our SCCC interns got a chance to put their CBT skills to work for the first time. We hope to have bigger numbers on the next clinic days which are Sunday, July 11, 2010 and Sunday August 1, 2010 from 2-6pm. Please visit our facebook page and request to “friend it.” It is under “Free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.”

The goal of the Free CBT clinic:

To introduce Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) treatment to the public via a free, individual CBT consultation. By offering the free consultation to the public, we hope to potentially initiate “mental health treatment” to those who may never have attempted to access treatment before due to lack of finances, lack of knowledge about the therapeutic process, or even fear of the process. It will be an opportunity for them to be introduced to a new kind of therapy and subsequent positive life-style change that they have never experienced before. We believe that all people should have the privilege of learning and integrating this type of skills-based therapy.

We also believe that these individuals will be intrigued enough by the CBT skills-based interventions that they may elect to seek CBT therapy in their community. Or better yet, they might seek it here at The Southern California Counseling Center (SCCC) where CBT trained interns and lay counselors will be available to them on a regular basis.

The free CBT consultation will consist of an individual session with a CBT trained counselor who will offer an introduction and brief education into what CBT is about, how it works and how this treatment helps people with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship problems, grief and loss, etc.

We consider CBT to be one of the most humanistic types of psychotherapy because it focuses on an individual’s thinking instead of an individual’s character.

John Tsilimparis, MFT

John Tsilimparis, MFT

John Tsilimparis, MFT is Cognitive Behavioral therapist and a Southern California Counseling Center Alumnus who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders. He is a former staff therapist at Cedars-Sinai Hospital’s mental health center in Los Angeles as well as at Kaiser Permanente. He also works in the field of addiction as a drug and alcohol counselor and interventionist. He is also in private practice in Brentwood, CA.

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